The second episode of Pacquiao-Marquez 24/7 debuted on Saturday evening. Once again it took us into the training camps and personal lives of the two long-time rivals, as Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez continue preparations for the rubber match in their epic trilogy. You can read up on what happened with our full recap of Pacquiao vs. Marquez 24 7 episode 2 right here.
First we take a look back at what happened last week with the first episode of 24/7 Pacquiao vs. Marquez. Pacquiao’s training camp kicked off at full speed, with Freddie Roach impressed with Pacman’s intensity already, and Marquez was getting to work with revenge on his mind, feeling he was wronged in those first two fights. With that, the new action gets started, and we begin episode 2 of Pacquiao-Marquez 24-7.
We hear a narration about dynamite and power, as some guys are putting together an artistic poster of Dinamita. We’re in Marquez’s camp, and he’s hard at work sparring. He’s been working on putting on more muscle and strength for the move up to 144 lbs, and his sparring partners talk about how he feels strong and is punching with some real power. Nacho Beristain talks about how the goal and all the focus is on Pacquiao, and knocking people down in training camp and things like that don’t ultimately make any difference.
Marquez and his camp aren’t taking anything for granted with their preparation, and their working hard every day. We see Marquez pop one of his speed bags, and then see he’s doing more than just that, he’s breaking up the foundation of the support holding it up. More power and force behind those punches, maybe?
Now we’re at the Wild Car Gym with team Pacquiao, and he’s talking about how when he was elected as a congressman, it was hard for him to balance. At first, like for his camp against Antonio Margarito, he wasn’t fully invested into boxing. But now, with more time under his belt as a Filipino congressman serving his people, he’s better able to concentrate on boxing.
We see some footage of Pacquiao’s district in the Philippines and the people who live there. The people feel like he understands them, and indeed, Pacquiao does understand what the impoverished are going through having lived it as a child and teen.
He’s helped to make some changes and institute some positive changes to the families and workers in his area, and he’s viewed as having already made a positive difference. He’s satisfied and feels like he’s been successful, but he knows there’s much more to do. He wants a new medical center in the province as one of the larger goals, for example. But ultimately now, he’s able to think about his congressional tasks while still training at 100% for his upcoming fight.
We’re back in Mexico, and we hear about the terrible traffic in Mexico City. Marquez says he doesn’t hate the traffic, because he loves living there, but when he’s in a hurry, then he hates it. Then we see Marquez’s fleet of cars and trucks and hear about how he uses them on different occasions and for different purposes.
Trainer Beristain has a vintage Mustang from the 60s which Marquez is envious of, crossing his fingers that his trainer will leave it to him in his will, although he doesn’t want to. At home, Marquez’s kids are studying for school, but even as everything stays the same at the house and for the family, he has to go to the gym to train.
Beristain is attending a small local card one evening, and he talks about the respect he has for his charges, and how they are the reason he has made it to far in the sport. He talks about how much satisfaction he gets when he sees them be successful and climb to th top of the sport.
Then it’s back to Pacquiao, and he talks about his start in boxing, and his first time coming to the United States. He arrives in San Francisco and in California his mother is looking for a gym for him to work out at. They find the Wild Card Gym, and meet Freddie Roach, and that’s the start of one of the most successful pairings in boxing history.
It’s a designated sparring day for Pacquiao, and Roach says that Pacquiao goes at about 50-60% in sparring. Maybe his sparring partners like Ray Beltran disagree. Beltran has been sparring with him since 2004, and he says that Pacquiao can drive you crazy when you spar him because of his style. We also see California fighter David Rodela sparring with him, as well as Irishman Jamie Kavanagh.
All of his sparring partners are talking about how he seems really on point and better than ever in sparring. Pacquaiao spars a tough 12 rounds, and Alex Ariza says that Pacquiao would be good to go for the fight tomorrow. Pacquiao talks with Beltran about how much he wants this fight, and how he’s working so hard.
Back to camp Marquez and we see Marquez hard at work putting on some strength to pack onto his frame. Beristain blames his performance against Mayweather two years ago do to some changes in their training which affected him negatively, such as carrying and throwing rocks which took away some of his flexibility and speed at the cost of more strength.
Now he’s using much more advanced strength training which his roach to get him more strength and power, while maintaining speed and explosiveness. And no, he’s not drinking his urine anymore, at the advice of his doctor and his strength coach.
Marquez hits a local track and field in the middle of the night, and his coach talks about how you can’t do what you were doing 50 years ago when science and knowledge and techniques and everything else have advanced too much. They’re training better now with all of the latest ideas and tools behind them, and they are both eager to display the improvements in his body and capabilities. Marquez says that this will be a watershed moment in his career.
Back to Pacquiao, and he’s going on an early morning mountainous jog. Across town in Beverly Hills, his adviser is making a purchase of a $300,000 Ferrari for his boss.
After training, Pacquiao watches one of his favorite Filipino movies, starring himself. Then his new Ferrari is delivered along with a gift, but Pacquiao’s attention remains mostly on his movie which he starred in. So, he keeps watching until the movie is over, then he checks out his brand new Ferrari. He revs the engine and is impressed with the noise, and he drives it for the first time, Ferrari salesman in tow, to the Wild Card.
But in the gym, it’s all business for Pacquiao. So much has changed for him in the last decade since he first came to the Wild Card, but Roach talks about how he has remained the same in terms of his hard work in the gym, and his desire to train hard and keep improving as a boxer.
Both Marquez and Pacquiao have come a long ways in their lives, and with all of the money they can need, expensive new cars, tons of fans and everything else, and for some it might be easy to lose sight of how they got there and lose focus on boxing. But not for these two guys. Both are driven and committed, and both desperately want this fight to go their way, so they train and they train in preparation for their next fight.
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